Club of Rome

The Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) was founded in Toronto in 1973. CACOR identifies itself as "one of over twenty national associations whose members have interests in common with The Europe-based Club of Rome, an international organization founded in 1968 by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist, along with Alexander King, a British scientist, and some 30 other scientists, educators, industrialists, and international civil servants gathered in Rome to share their concerns for the complex of global problems, which they named the 'world problematique' - the predicament of humankind."

According to the European-based Club of Rome's web site, the Club of Rome is a "global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative. As a non-profit, non governmental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies."

"The meeting at the Accademia dei Lincei was not a success, partly due to the difficulty of the participants to focus on a distant future. After the meeting, there was an informal gathering of a few people in Peccei’s home, which included Erich Jantsch, Alexander King, and Hugo Thieman. The Club of Rome grew out of this meeting of minds and people who were focused on the same problem."

Mission
Club of Rome website:
 * "The Club of Rome's mission is to act as a global catalyst of change that is free of any political, ideological or business interest ... The Club of Rome contributes to the solution of what it calls the world problematique, the complex set of the most crucial problems - political, social, economic, technological, environmental, psychological and cultural - facing humanity ...

It does so taking a global, long term and interdisciplinary perspective aware of the increasing interdependence of nations and the globalisation of problems that pose predicaments beyond the capacity of individual countries."

Publications

 * The Limits to Growth by Donella and Dennis Meadows et al, 1972.
 * Mankind at the Turning Point by M. Mesarovic and E. Pestel, 1974.
 * Reshaping the International Order by Jan Tinbergen, 1976.
 * The First Global Revolution by A. King and B. Schneider, 1992.

Executive Committee

 * HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, President
 * Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner, Honorary President
 * Eberhard von Koerber, Vice-President
 * Uwe Möller, Secretary General

Members
 * Ruth Bamela Engo-Tjega
 * Orhan Güvenen
 * Ashok Khosla
 * Patrick Liedtke
 * Roseann Runte
 * Raoul Weiler

Honorary Members (U.S.)
University of New Hampshire
 * Harlan B. Cleveland
 * Jay W. Forrester, MIT
 * H.E.César Gaviria, Secertary General, Organisation of American States
 * Enrique Iglesias, President, Inter-American Development Bank
 * Dennis Meadows, Director, Institute of Policy and Social Science Research,
 * Ms. Sadako Ogata, Co-Chair, Commission on Human Security (United Nations)

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Criticism

 * Robert Golub and Joe Townsend, “Malthus, Multinationals and the Club of Rome,” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 7 (1977): 201-222.

Contact
CLUB OF ROME Rissener Landstr. 193 22559 Hamburg, Germany Tel. +49 40 81960714 Fax +49 40 81960715 Email info@clubofrome.org URL: http://www.clubofrome.org

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